View full sizeThe Martin Luther King Jr. Houses on Malcolm X Blvd. is just one of many housing developments that have seen significant crime increase over the past year. (New York Daily News/Price for News)

Violence rises in New York City's housing developments, statistics show

Violence in city housing developments spiked last year, led by a sharp increase in Bronx murders and Harlem shootings, statistics show.

Residents were not surprised.

"You can't avoid it," Bronx resident Maria Rojas-Garcia, 61, said of the violence. "We got everything here. Just last summer a young man was shot in front of our building.